Further Reading
2:56pm, 20th August 2003
- Astrologers fail to predict proof they are wrong → Rationalists 1, Charlatans 0. Haw haw.
- The Day Email Died? [via Scripting News] → If you want to greatly reduce the chance of your house being broken into, move to a nicer area. If you want to greatly reduce the chance of the global email system being brought to its knees by worms and viruses and spammers, it’s even easier: don’t respond to spam and stop using Microsoft colanderware.
- Criticism is dead → I meant to link to this masterful post a while ago. Absolute required reading.
- Cool URIs don’t change → You’re not a real person unless you link to this several times a month.
- NHS patients to be given cannabis → Drugs + science = progress.
- Moon colony ‘within 20 years’… → “… says a leading lunar scientist.” Those pesky leading lunar scientists.
- How Keen are Elvish Eyes? → Probing the geek/nerd boundary.
- Poverty has biggest impact on GCSE results → “The findings come despite girls continuing to outdo boys in exams at age 16 by considerable margins.” Conclusion? Rich families have girls, poor families have boys!
